MCP Joins the Agentic AI Foundation
3 days ago
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- Anthropic donates Model Context Protocol (MCP) to the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation.
- MCP has seen rapid growth with 97M monthly SDK downloads, 10K active servers, and support across major AI platforms.
- MCP remains open and community-driven, ensuring vendor-neutrality and long-term independence.
- Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) is co-founded by Anthropic, Block, and OpenAI, with support from Google, Microsoft, AWS, and others.
- MCP joins Block's 'goose' and OpenAI's 'AGENTS.md' as founding projects of AAIF.
- AAIF Governing Board oversees strategic decisions, while projects like MCP retain technical autonomy.
- MCP's governance and maintainer structure remain unchanged under Linux Foundation stewardship.
- The Linux Foundation provides a neutral home without dictating MCP's technical direction.
- Acknowledgement to the community for contributions to MCP's success.